Characteristics | N = 479 n (%) |
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Sex | |
Male | 140 (29.2) |
Female | 339 (70.8) |
Age-group (years)a | |
≤ 35 years-old | 273 (57.0) |
> 35 years-old | 202 (42.2) |
Marital status | |
Married | 379 (79.1) |
Single | 22 (4.6) |
Widowed | 41 (8.6) |
Divorced/separated | 37 (7.7) |
Education status | |
Primary | 307 (64.1) |
None | 111 (23.2) |
Secondary | 56 (11.7) |
Informal/pre-primary | 5 (1.0) |
Pregnancy status (women-of-child-bearing-age between 15–49 years-old) | N = 276 |
Not-pregnant | 258 (93.5) |
Pregnant | 18 (6.5) |
Occupation | |
Crop farming | 286(59.7) |
Mixed-farming (crop and livestock)/pastoralist | 93 (19.4) |
Business/self-employed | 42 (8.8) |
Employee | 25 (5.2) |
Housewife | 22 (4.6) |
Unemployed/student | 7 (1.5) |
Other | 4 (0.8) |
Household ownership | |
Owned | 466 (97.3) |
Rented | 13 (2.7) |
Household floor | |
Natural/earth | 398 (83.1) |
Cement/tiles | 81 (16.9) |
Household roof | |
Grass/thatch | 292 (61.0) |
Iron-sheets | 187 (39.0) |
Household wall | |
Brickwall | 344 (71.8) |
Mudwall | 135 (28.2) |
Household energy used | |
Firewood | 433 (90.4) |
Charcoal | 46 (9.6) |
Levels of knowledge regarding mosquito larval source management methods | |
High | 309 (64.5) |
Low | 170 (35.5) |